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VOL. 86. NO. 45
TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5. (908.
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Notice of Administration.
Having qualified as administrator
on the estate of John C. Lancaster,
late of Edgecombe County, this is
to notify all persons holding claims a
gainst the said estate to present the
same to me duly verified on or before
tne last day of October, 1909 or
this notice will be plead in bar ’of
their recovery; and all persons indebt
ed to said estate will please make
immediate settlement with me.
This Oct. 27th, 1908.
J. J. THORNE,
Administrator of J. C. Lancaster.
T. T. Thorne, Atty.
Notice.
By virture of the power contained
In a mortgage or trust deed to me ex
ecuted by Logan Jackson on the 10th
day of August 1906, and duly record
ed in Edgecombe county Registry in
Book 112 at page 435, I will on Mon
day the 30th, day of Nov. 1908, - be
tween the hours of 10 o’clock a. m.,
and 2 o’clock p. m., sell to the high
est bidder for cash at the court house
door in Tarboro, the land described
in said mortgage to-wit: A certain
parcel of land in the town of Tarboro
being part of the lot No. 134, being
the land conveyed to said Jackson
by D. H. Harris and wife by deed
recorded in Book 101 at page 68 of
said registry.
This October 28th 1908.
G. M. T. FOUNTAIN,
Mortgagee.
Noiice to Creditor*.
Having qualified as Executor of the
last will and testament of W. J Cor
bett, late of Edgecombe county, Nort
Carolina, notice is hereby given to
all persons holding claims against my
testator to present them to the under
signed, duly proven on or before the
18th day of Oct. 1909, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery
All persons indebted to the estate
of my testator must make immediate
payment.
This the 22nd day of September
1908.
W. W. CORBETT. Executor.
R. G. ALLSBROOK, Attorney.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualifed as administrate
of the estate of F. E. Cobb, late of
Edgecombe county, with the will an
nexed, notice is hereby given to all
persons holding claims against my
testator to present them duly pro
ven on or before September 24 1909
or this notice will be plead in bar
of recovery.
All persons indebtedto the estat
must make immediate payment.
This September 21st 1908.
K. C. EDWARDS, Admr.
Jas. R. Gaskill, Atty.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified as executors of
the last wiU and testament of Lydia
Brown, late of Edgecombe county, no
tice is hereby given to all persons
holding claims against our te3tatrtx
to present them duly proven on or be
will be plead for Oct. 15th, 1909 or
this notice will be plead in bar of
recovery.
All persons indebted to the estate
must make immediate payment.
This 9th of October.
H. G. BROWN,
G. R. BROWN,
rv Executors
OFFICIAL NOTICE.
Edgecombe county. In the Superior
Court.
TacitusDancy and Susan Blango, vs
31 ary Dancy.
Service of Summons by Publication.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Edgecombe county,
to partition a certain parcel of land
set out and described in thecomplaint
filed in this action between the said
plaintiffs and the defendants.
And the said defendant will further
take notice that she is required to
apear before the clerk of the said
Court at his office in the court
house in Tarboro in said county oh
the third Monday in October, 1908,
being the 19th day and answer or
demur to the complaint in Bald ac
tion or the plaintiffs will aply to the
court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
This Sept. 12th, 1908.
A. T. WALSTON,
Clerk of Superior Court.
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—Ladies’ Tailored Suits as low ae
$10.98 at W. M. Arnheim’s.
—Best shoe for men who cares, is
the Florsheim. J. Zander.
—The Newest Fabrics and Nob
biest Styles in Ladies’ Tailored Suits
at W. M. Arnheim’s.
—Sterns Agency for high grade
Tailoring. See my line of samples. 1
2J. McCabe, at Zander’s. 7£J
TARBORO' COTTON FACTORY AIR
ING
Henry Clark Bridgera Against Offi
cials Brings a Suit That Will
Excite Much Interest.
For years the Tarboro Cotton Fac
tory has been in financial and other
difficulties. These difficulties and the
clashings of those interested in its
management are to be more or less
aired in court.
As appears from the records in the
Clerk’s office, Mr. Bridgers has filed
a petition againsl L. L. Staton, Job
Cobb, H. L. Staton and E. V. Zoel
ler, alleging in.hls petition a contract
entered into with‘the above parties in
1904.
Said contract, sets out that H. C.
Bridgers owned or controlled 600
shares of the Tarboro Cotton Fac
tory stock, that H. L. Staton and Job
Cobb and the Pamlico bank owned or
controlled a like number of shares
and that S. S. Nash controlled about
200 shares, and they entered into an
agreement to the representation on th
Board of Directors of the Tarboro
Cotton Factory in which the said bank
interested were to nominate three di
rectors, Bridgers three directors, and
Nash one director.
That this contract was never lived
up to by the Statons, Cobb or Nash,
and that H. C. Bridgers was deprived
of his rights of representation on the
Board and the right to assist in the
management of the Tarboro Cotton
Factory for a period of three yeais.
At the annual meeting in 1907, he
demanded his rights under Chapter
457 Acts of 1907, to vote his stock
cumulative so as to secure represents
tion on the Board. But the Chairman,
L. L. Staton denied him his rights
and thereby depriving him of assis
tance in the management of the
property.
And at the annual meeting in 1908,
the Cobb-Staton interest over the
protest of the said Bridgere still de
nied him his legal rights to vote his
stock cumulative, they voting 307
shares of proxies which were out of
date, and objected to by said Bridgere
and which they were not legally en
titled to vote, thereby depriving said
Bridgers of his rights.
The petition further asks for an
order from Court demanding that
the election of the Board of Direc
tors be held in accordance with the
le'gal representation of the stock as
was represented at the annual meet
ing October 14th, 1908, and that the
said defendants be enjoined from vot
ing the said 307 shares which they
were not legally entitled to vote.
The petitioner further asks for an
leges incompetency and bad manage
ment. That other cotton mills during
the last three years have eanred mone
and paid dividends. And that the peti
tioner has been damaged by the said
defendants in the sum of $23,821.00.
The petitioner is represented by W.
O. Howard and F. S. Spruill.
The Largest Ever Held.
Sec. J. S. Warren, of the Business
Men’s Club of Memphis, has written
Harvie Jordan of Atlanta, that the
forces for the Cotton Conference,
which will be held in Memphis, Tenn.
Nov. 10, 11 and 12, 1908, are fully
organized.
Representatives of the following
bodies were at the organized meet
ing:
City of Memphis at Large.
Merchants’ Exchange.,
Cotton Exchange. * ,
Business Men’s Club.
Lumbermen's Club. _
Builders Exchange.
Trades & Labor Council and iypo:
graphical Union.
Mr. W. R. Barksdale was appointed
permanent chairman and was instruct
ed to select his Finance Committee.
President Taylor of the Ginners’ As
sociation has issued a call to the
members of the Association urging
them to attend the Conference. Dele
gations will be in attendance also from
Cotton Oil Mills, Fertilizer Factories,
Banks and business organizations as
wall as the farmers generally.
The meeting promises to be one of
the largest Cotton Conferences ever
held in the South. Delegates to the
Convention will represent practical
ly all interests identified with cotton.
Contributions are being received
daily to aid the Conference for higher
prices for cotton.
National Bank Deposits.
The national banks of the United
States on September 23d, held $L
548,135,163 individual deposits, or
$371,261,446 in excess of the total on
December 3rd, 1907, just after tie
panic. The banks are also very strong
in crop revenues.
This, while gratifying, as indicating
large capacity for future credit ex
pansion, is not, as some of the dis
patches argue an evidence of prospetl
ty, Qn the contrary, it is one of the
result* pf depression. When business
Is poor, money accumulates in the
banks. The same accumulation has
taken place in the Bank of England
I for the same reason,—Wall Street
Journal.
Fight at Busy Be« Restaurant,
As a result of a fight in the Busy
Bee restaurant Thursday night, Alf.
Taylor and Nicholas Jones were find
i $2.50 and $5.00, respectively, today
by Mayor Jones. In the melee table
articles were thrown at each othen
—Over 120 phonographs records of
Indian songs, chants, and incantation
recently were collected by a N. York
1 college professor during a visit tc
the Winnebago reservation.
RALEIGH CONVOCATION CON
CLUDES SESSION.
Permanent Arch-Deacon to be Ap
pointed by Bishop Cheshire.
The two days’ session of the Ral
leigh Convocation ended Thursday
night with two excellent addresses by
Bishop Cheshire and Rev. Sidney S
Bost, of Durham. At the business ses
sion held Thursday afternoon the
Ways and Means Committee decided
in favor of an Arch-Deacon of the Con
■ vocation to be appointed by the Bish
op. Bishop Cheshire will also an
nounce later the place for holding
the next meeting.
At the afternoon session Rev. R.
B. Owens and Thomas H. Battle, of
Rocky Mount, made stirring addres
es on “Training of Young Men in
Sunday School.” Rev. Geo. W. Lay
spoke on the “Training of Young
Women at St. Mary’s School.” These
speeches were filled with stirring re
marks of the proper training of the
future workers in the church.
All who weathered the storm Thurs
day night to attend the closing meet
ing in Calvary Episcopal church
heard two par excellence addresses
on the work of the recent confer
ences held in'England. Rev. Bost gav
a vivid description of the work accom
piished at the Pan-Anglican Con
gress. Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Ches
hire, Bishop of North Carolina Dio
cese, concluded the meeting with
a great address upon the “Lambeth
Congress.”
Although the inclement weathe
prevented many from attending th
sessions of the Convocation, -those
who attended the meetings were en
thused with the spirit of future mis
sionary work.
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.
Being the Confessions of the Seven
Hundredth Wife and Translated
by Helen Roland For the
Washington Herald.
I charge thee, my daughter, when
love beginneth, question not any
man how it will end; for it is only
In the beginning of things that a
man is interested, even in the cream
off the Jug, the bubble of the cham
pagne, the meat on the peach, and—
the first kiss of a woman.
Therefore, he windeth the alarm
clock and setteth it for the finish
of whatever he contemplateth, from
a morning nap to love’s young dream.
Mark ye his wisdom!
When he beginneth to break his
engagements.
When he shorteneth his calls.
When he observeth not that thou
flirtest with others.
When he loseth the drift of conver
sation. •
When he yawneth at half-past 9 and
taketh out his watch.
Then, ah, then, the alarm clock
soundeth and love ringeth off!
Yet what mattereththe end? Is not
the end of the cream but skimmed
milk, and the end of a cigar a butt,
and the end of a peach a stone, and
the end of champagne dregs, and the
end of love a quarrel—or a. two-by
four flat and a mother-in-law? .And
which of these would ye choose?
Yet a woman clingeth to anything
from love to an argument as a terrier
to an old shoe. She stoppeth her ears
she heedeth not the signs.
Yea, believe, my daughter, a man
goeth into love affair as he goeth in
to a game of billiards. When the
game is won he loseth interest—and
seeketh new game.
For love is as a feast, which the
wise enjoyeth while it lasteth and
regardeth not when it is over, nor
bothered about the bill. Selah!
Went Suddenly Blind.
Lloyd Simmons, the young man whc
went suddenly blind sometime ago,
was today taken to his home near
Speed. Although he has received the
best medical attention, he does not
§eem to improve. Last week he under
went an operation at St. Vincent’s
hospital, Norfolk, but so far he has
not recovered his sight. There seems
to be no hope that he will ever regai
his eyesight.
Attempted Suicide in Rocky Mount.
Without any^ warning or any rea
son for hio act, Jesse Vick, a young
white man employed at the rock quar
ry in Rocky Mount, attempted to tak
his life Wednesday 28th, in the pres
ence of many employes, by shooting
himself in the left side. The case was
one’ of apparent suicide, and this
was the opinion of all who saw the
act. The wound was first thought
to be fatal but a careful diag
nosis of the wound, proved that the
gun was placed too close to the
man’s body and the bullet failed to
gain any marked velocity. There
are hopes of his recovery.
An application has been made *4)y
Colin G. Shaw for the pardon of W.
D. Shaw, convicted at the April term
1908 court of shooting his wife. Shaw
is a printer of Rocky Mount, and the
shooting was the result of an acciden
it is alleged.
R. M. Rawls’ Toy Store.
R, M, Rawl§ opened hid new toy
store Friday, and the novel and beau
tiful presents for a child’s happy and
merry Christmas were much &4mire4
The store is artistically decorated an
attracting much attention. The storf
did a rushing business Friday anc
undoubtedly this .will continue unti
the holidays are over.
—Stores that “Hide their Lights'
soon hide themselves altogether.
DELIGHTFUL DANCE THURSDAY NIGHT
Carnival German Weil Attended Gonsiderinj
The inclement Weather.
One of the prettiest dances! see]
4n Tarboro for sometime was give]
in the Edgecombe club hall, Thurs
day night, in honor of Alias Mar:
Della Farmer, of Wilson. Many pret
ty german figures were led by Mis;
King and Jim Simmons. The Fire
men’s band, under the leadership o
Wilson L. Bell, furnished the mush
for the affair.
The guests were Dr. and Mrs. Gal
loway, Miss Parmer with Henry Red
mond, Miss Isabelle Clark with Wm
Royster^ Miss Sue Baker with San
Clark, Miss Annie Cordon with Bei
Dawson, Miss Blanche King with J
E. Simmons, Miss Vernon Fountaii
with Tom Moore, Miss Kate, Wim
berly with B. B. Plyler, Miss Marj
Powell with P. P. Londen, Miss Pau
line Powell with H. I. Coffield, Mist
Louise Pender with P. B. Tomlin
son, Mis3 Georgia Dargan with Mil
ton Dawson, Miss Kate Redmond witl
Dow Pender, Miss Lizzie Baker with
Richard Bunn, Miss Elizabeth How
ard with Edward Parker, Miss Nem
mie Pender with Walter Hudson.
Stags, John Cheshire, Th&d Hussey,
Spencer Hart.
The music furnished by the Fire
men’s band was the best ever heard
at a social function of this kind. The
selections were well rendered and
were popular with the dunces. This
is quite a reputation for Tarboro's
popular musical organization.
Wealth That Kills.
Bright’s disease and organic heart
trouble in New York and other large
cities of wealth have reached alarm
ing proportions. These are aristocrat!
ailments, coming from rich feeding
late hours and wines. In New York,
the deaths from theses troubles were
in 1871, at the rate of 17.68 persons
in every 1,000 of population; in
1883 the rate had increased to 21.91;
in 1903, it was 27.20; in 1907 it was
30.14. Here in cold figures of death
and disease, is the lesson which tells
us, who, though poor, love life and
health, that riches are not an unmiti
gated blessing. Of course, all think
that if we were rich we would be
more sensible than those who are no-\
wealthy, but this cannot be proved, fo
prosperity is a much harder test of
character than some suspect and is
likely to show up the dross in the
saintliest. Better by far for our health
at least, is the stern master, necessi
ty, which forces us to go sedately
along the same workaday pathway,
than the wild gay crony, wealth, that
would encourage us to run impetuous
to a premature grave. The universal
cry and desire and plaint of the age
is for riches. If we stop for a minute
we may realize that riches would
mean but a slight variation from the
programme upon which our lives are
alread ordered. Food, clothes, home,
occupation, recreation, friends—we
all have these. Wealth would merely
in your coat, more gimcracks in
your house, more anxiety in your
occupation, more pretense in your rec
reation, and more falsity in your
friends.
A Great Wheat Crop.
By the edge of a sunbaked Indian
wheat field two men are squatting
over the Hindu farmer's midday meal
of rice and buttermilk, alternately
sopping up bits of gravy with broken
pieces of bread as they discuss the
weather, the prospects of the crop,
and the homely affairs of current in
terest. When they have finished, one
of them rises and walks along the
field, examining the heads of wheat
and pulling a stalk here and there
then bids adieu to his host and trud
ges on his way. He is a crop reporter
and the information he gains in
his day’s visit will be flashed under
seas by cable and will be posted to
morrow on the Chicago Board
of Trade and reproduced in newspa
pers throughout the grain belt of
the United States.
Similarly, says a writer in, Apple
ton’s, if one could drop into a village
of the Caucasus he would find a
bearded man in peasant garb chattin
with the farmers as to the probable
yield of the fields, shelling out the
kernels of wheat and running them
through his fingers, visiting scores
of villages and hundreds of farms in
his quest. Far away on the other
side of the world other men are
riding from one lonely station to
another in the great Australian in
terior, from ranch to ranch across
the Argentine plains, and in dusteov
ered buggies along Dakota roads.
All these and hundreds of others
like them who are making thorough
study of all the great wheat fields
of the globe are part of the vast
mechanism employed in the yearly
handling of the world’s cereal crops.
They are the scouts and skirmishers
whose task is the important one
of determining the size of the crop
and its condition. From the time the
seed goes into the ground they are
at work, obserying and reporting ev
ery factor that influences the yield
or the quality of the world’s great
staple. In this they are playing an
Important part in the great work of
handling the year's prop, fop yqlqme
and quantity, regulating price deter
mine the flow marketward, both as
to speed and as to the direction from
which the supply must be drawn.
’ —There are none better than the
Florsheim shoe. J. Zander.
Al KOONSATTACKEOBYJAGUARTHURSBAY NIGHT
, Keeper of Wild Animils at Sir.iti ’s Greater
Shows Victim of Beaiay.
That wild animals with carnivals
i sometimes become as ferocious as in
t their native lair, resulted in a terri
• ble accident at the Smith’s Greater
’ shows, Thursday night about 12 o,
■ clock, when Al. Koons, the keeper,
t was attacked and before aid reached
- him, his left arm from the elbow to
! the hand was horribly mangled and
: and clawed by “Beauty” the famous
jaguar. During the severe rain Mr.
■ Koons went to each cage and pet
• ted the animals to ascertain whether
, they were suffering from the ex
posure. When he reached the cage of
i the leopards, where “Beauty” also
holds forth, he noticed the jag
uar seemed to be suffering. Without
hesitating the keeper placed his left
hand on the leopard, when without
warning, “Beauty” sprang at him,
sinking her teeth into the flesh of
his forearm, and clawing at the hand
Mr. Koons shouted for help and with
quick presence of mind, dropped the
lantern he held in his light hand,
and thrust the other arm into
the cage.-At this “Beauty” prepared
for another attack on the right arm,
thereby releasing the injured member
The flesh of the injured arm was
torn in threahs, with a large piece bit
ten out of the fleshy part. Dr. W. W.
Green was summoned and used 2-1
stitches in the wound.
Mr. “Dooley" on Happiness.
In the November American Maga
zlne, “Mr. Dooley,’ writing on “Uplift
ing the Farmers” says:
“Well, sir, ’tis a tur-uble problem
this here wan Iv human onhappiness.
If Tiddy Rosenfelt finds out th’
causes iv it he’ll be th’ gr-reastest
man since Moses, Some folks say th'
on’y way to be happy is to wurruk.
Maybe that accounts f’r th’ onhappi
ness among th’ farmers. Perhaps
they would be merryer if some im
ployment cud be found f’r thim, pre
ferably in th’ open air. Some say ’tis
money; thy’re poor. Some say ’tis
simple povetry; thy’re rich. Hogan
says ’tis human society; which ac
counts f’r th’ happiness that pre
vails in all large cities. Some say ’tis
selfishness will made ye happy. I’ve
thried it. It, didn’t cure me. Other
people say onselfishness; but that’s
no more thin to say that ye can on
ly be happy be givin’ up something
that wud make ye happy. Th’ nearest
ye get to happiness is in wantin'
something badly an’ thinkin’ ye have
a chance to get it an’ not gettin* it.
If ye get it ye’ll be onhappy. Whin
ye have ivrything in th’ wurruld that
we want th’ family will do well to
watch ye whin ye pick up a razor.”
Wealth of The United States.
In 1860 the United States held the
fourth rank among the manufactur
ing nations. Great Britain, France,
and Germany were ahead of us, in
the order named. We passed Great
Britain in 1890, and today the aggre
gate of our manufactures equals that
of Great Britain, Germany and France
combined. The value of our products
of manufactures has doubled since
1888. The value of our exports of man
ufactures has doubled since 1898. The
value of the property represented,
manufactures ranks third among the
great activities of the United States,
agriculture being first and the rail
roads being second, but in the
number of persons employed agricul
ture is the only interest whiAh leads
manufactures. Manufactures is far
ahead of agriculture in the value of
the products. The money invested in
manufactures represents an eighth of
value of all the real and personal
property in the country. The United
all the manufactured products of the
world. The value of the farm proper
States manufactures 35 per cent of
ty of the United States increased
from $7,908,000,000 in 1860 to $20,
524,000,000 in 1900, and it is about
$25,000,000,000 in 1908—Dr. Charles
M. Harvey, in Leslie’s Weekly.
A vamsning 1 rioe.
Once members of the great Creek
family, the Seminoles of Florida have
lost their tribe, their traditions and
their homes. Their own people have
forgotten them- The United States has
ignored them since the Seminole war
when their roster was lost.
Payment of the government debt
to their tribe made plutocrats of
their brothers in the West, but nev
er a dime reached the members of
the little band who refused to be
driven from the|r ancestral hgme. But
their Spartan courage has departed
and In the cowed and cringing rem
nant there is no spark of the fire
that flashed in the “Seminole’s Re
ply.”
The government (has no agent a
mong the Seminoles, and the last
guess at their number, made by the
United States seven years ago, was
358. That fragment of the tribe has
now shrunk to 275.
—One great factor in the high price
of provisions in New York city is
the necessity of suporting an increas
ing army of middlemen who stand be
tween the producer and the consumer
eler’s tree.
—-A 1,000 horse power vertical gac
engine, said to be the largest of its
kind, was recently put into operation
at Runcorn, England, driving an
electric generator.
Not much use in reducing prlcei
and then keeping it a half secret.
AGE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
Historical Period a Mere Fraction of
Man’s Life on Earth.
Implements recently found in Europe
are assigned at a guess—an age of
perhaps 100,000 years. In dealing with
such enormous periods of time nobodj
thic remains have been discovered,
are believed to date back 150,000 year
can speak with assurance. But paleoli
ic remains have been discovered that
are believd to date zack 150,000 years
Other human traces may be of twice
that age. At any rate, many millenni
ums were required to develop an
animal as Ray Lankester has put it
‘with a relatively enormous brain cas
a skilful hand, an inveterate tendency
to throw stones and to flourish
sticks, and to defeat aggression and
satisfy his natural appetites by the
use of his wits rather than by
strength alone."
The earliest traces of man when
history takes up the story are possibly
6,000 years old. An advanced civiliza
tion existed at that time; one that
must have been the product of a de
velopment of hundreds of thousands
of years. But all of human history up
to 4,000 B. C. is a blank.
The extent of this profound igno
rance is hardly comprehended. Prof J.
H. Robinson, of Columbia University,
suggests this comparison: “Suppose,”
iie says, “that a history of the race
for the 300,000 years that we know
it to have existed were to be put in
to a volume of 300 pages, Suppose
something worth a page of the record
were known « concerning each thou
sand years. 0^ the entire volume only
the last bnff dozen pages would be
devoted to the period with which the
scholar of today has any acquaint
ance.—Kansas City Star.
A Relic And a Man.
A very Interesting relic of the Rev
olutionary days has been lent to the
Hall of History, Raleigh, by Miss
Jennie Pescud, stenographer to the
commissioner of agriculture, this be
ing a shaving case which during the
Revolution was presented to her fa
mous ancestor, Peter Francisco, of
Virginia by General Nathaniel Greene
It bears the inscription so showing
and was given in 1776. Peter Francis
co was the strongest man in the
United States, of immense size and
used the sword which he had made
himself, with this weapon on one
accasion killing several British sol
iiers who had entered his house to
take him prisoner.
The Earth a Growth.
"In the beginning God created
Heaven and earth. And the earth was
without form and void.” Whatever our
speculations may be in regard to a
"beginning” and when it was, it is
written in the rocks that, like the
animals and plants upon its surface,
the earth itself grew; that for count
less ages, measured by years that no
man could number, the earth has grad
ually been assuming its present form
and composition, and that the proces
ses of growth and decay are active
every hour.—Elisha Gray, Nature’s
Miracles.
Wedding of Edgeoombe Countlan.
Masses of oak boughs, palms and
white chrysanthemums made a beau
tiful autumn setting for the wedding
of Mrs. Viola A. Sweet Putman, of
Brooklyn to William Robert Knight,
of Mildred, N. C.
The ceremony was performed in
the parlors of the Putman home, 471
Fifty-first street by the Rev. Thomas
V. Parker. The bride was preceded to
the improvised altar by Master Ar
thur Putman as page, Viola Lee, as
flower girl and Mrs. Theodore H.
Mackey as matron of honor, the
bride following unattended. She was
met at the altar by the groom and
Theordore H. Mackey as best man.
Mrs. Putman wore a bridal gown
of white chiffon and satin, Empire
style, with yoke of Malta lace, and
carried a shower bouquet of bridal ros
es and lilies of the, valley. The wed
ding breakfast was served for a hun
dred guests in the diningroom, artis
tically decorated with pale green
and white.
Rdyal V. Mackey gave several se
lections accompanied by Miss Mar
garet Doyle. Mrs. F. Gardner also
Played a piano solo. The orchestra
was under the direction of Mrs. Geo.
Rogers—Brooklyn Eagle.
The groom is well-known in Edge
combe county, his former home. He
is a son of Cromwell Knight and a
brother of Mrs. Joe Powell. /
Mr. and Mrs, Kgight arrived here
today on their wedding tour.
Joseph King’s New Version of East
Lynne.
Local theatre patrons willv be af
forded the oportunity November 12th
of witnessing a highly artistic and
enjoyable presentation of the $regt-.
est emotional- drama East by
Joseph King’ll New York company.
The intense scene* in which the
unfortunate heroine’s child breathe
its last, is the supreme dramatic mo
ment of the play. The performance
throughout is maintained § high
standard of artistic excellence.
Nothing hag been left undone in
d* geenje aids and aecetamlea
ftnd competent stage direction wiU
insure a harmonious performance.
Horse Killed by Falling Into Well
A horse owned by R. B. Peters
fell into an old well in Keechtowr
Friday evening and before aid eppM
be summoned to rescue the anima
the horse died. The hone was val
ued at $125.
THE RESURRECTION PLANT.
The resurrection plant Is one of
the most remarkable creations of
nature. It accommodates itself
to the changed condition of di
mate with a readiness that distin
gnishes it from all other species of
plant life. It is such a curiosity
that it is sold by the thousands by
curio dealers throughout the
country.
The fact is not generally known
that practically all of the resurrec
tion plants sold in the United
States are obtained from the
mountainous region around Alpine
Texas. This is the native home
Of the remarkable growth. The
plants grow in great profusion
upon the rocks on the.mountain
sides at an altitude of 4,000 to
5.000 feeL
A. McCaltum, of Alpine, is the
resurrection plant king. He in
augurated the business of supply
ing curio dealers with the plants
several years ago, and now has a
monopoly of this trade. He will
sell about 500,000 of the plants
this year, and at the rate the
trade is growing probably double
that number will be disposed of
next year.
The resurrection plant is a
species of desertJjvegetation. It is
an air and water plant, It grows
upon the rocks, but it has few
roots and is really a parasite. It
flourishes as well in the air as
upon the ground, if given plenty
of moisture. In dry weather, when
the earth is lacking in moisture,
the plant becomes dry and shriv
eled. It has the appearance f
being dead. It can be kept n
this dry condition for years atva
time and then placed in water.
Within six hours it has turned
green and opened its branches,
presenting a thrifty, beautiful ap
peaiance. Where the| resurrection
plants grow in profusion they
cause a transformation of the ap
pearance of the surface of the
country in a few hours after a rain
Vast stretches of mountain sides
become green as if by magic touch.
—-Kansas City Star.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
An officer of the battleship
Alabama, just returned to its
home base, calls attention to the
episode that happened during the
cruise of the fleet that serves to
show how narrowly we do escape
serious trouble in this world at
times, and how thankful we should
be for it when we dol
Says the officer in question:
“l’hree months ago the Japa
nese training ship Tsushima blew
up at sea off the North coast of
the island of Luzon. Thirty-six
hours before the accident the
Tsushima was at anchor in the
harbor of Manilla. Suppose the
thing, whatever it was, had gone
wrong in her magazine while she
was at Manilla and she had been
blown up there?”
W e do not know what would
have happened. Tnere was, at
that time, a good deal of distrust
abroad iD the land concerning
Japan’s attitude toward this coun
try, and the exact purpose of the
fleet’s sailing—well if not precise
ly distrust, at least latent suspic
ion. Moreover, there was a active
aggressive ‘‘jingo” party at work
in Japan stirring up the people
and sowing seeds of hate toward
“Uncle Sam” and his people; the
Hobsons of this land were viewing
with intense alarm; the Hobsons
of Japan were gloomy, and pre
dieted dire things. Had the
Tsushima blown up in Manilla
Bay, or thereabout, and the yel
low press seized upon it, as it al
most sorely would have done, it is
not without the range of the pjrob
able that we would be at war with
Japan at this very moment—in
deed, the very flower of our navy
was at the time steaming toward
Japan with all its might.
Of course, things didn’t fall out
that way, and the recent cordial
reception of the fleet in Japanese
waters, the great rejoiciDg of the
people, and the hearty enthusiasm
deep, sincere and earnest, have
served to dispel every cloud that
lowered upon the horizon, and we
are today better understood by Ja
pan than we eyer before have been
—rand Japan is better understood
by ns,
But if Providence hadn’t inter
posed—or whatever it was—and
that vessel had not sailed from our
waters at the time it did, we might
have blundered into a useless, des
tractive, horrible war, and for no
legitimate reason whatsoever!
It was rathe* a close call—but
we suppose *‘a miss is as good as a
I-Washington Herald.
Frost,
The last day of October Is later
than the average for frost, but such
hasS h«en the condition this yean.
Two or three times frost has been
reported here, but its existence could
never be verified. One morning in
the early part of October, the South
erner man was told that several had
seen frost. As he started on a verify
cation tour, Col. Zoeller was met and
he completely shattered the frost
idea by giving the. taw temperature
record fop t^e night, 53.
Kiting frosts have been known to
occur much later than this but it
is rare that the month of Qctober
is credited with only ojyj frost and
t that a light one.
THE ARM SWING.
Why should a man swine his
arm when he walks! Does he walk
with his arms! Does the swing aid
locomotion! The West Point cadets
are trained to hold the little fing- •
er against the stripe of the trous
era,palm to the front.The situation
throws the shoulders back and
makes the youth walk erect. Men
who never had military training
carry their fists any old way, most
of them with thumbs to the fingers
half clinched, a la pugllistique!
They are eager for a fight or a
frolic. They are ready to do you.
Others carry their palms inward,
that is facing the leg. every nail of
the half closed hand scraping the
seam as the arm swings. Some
men walk with their hands open,
some with them closed. I am will
ing to bet a billion I can tell much
of a man’s character by the way
| he totes his “dukes. ”
There are men whose arms when
they walk are like a couple of ex
cited pendulums, trying to emulate
the stride of the leg, the right arm
swinging in unison with the move
ment of the left leg, and the left
arm keeping time with the right
leg. The military man is taught
not to swing his arms; the civilian
swings expansively, often cover
ing a bigger radius than that cov
ered by his legs. When a man
swings his arms excessively he ap
pears to be paddling along. When
aman doesn’t swing his arms at all
he seems to be advancing automata,
cally. He is altogether uncanny.—
New York Press.
ATTACKED BY BLACK BEAR.
Lady Keeper of Wild Animals In
jured Friday Night
During a performance of the wild
animals at the carnival Friday night,
the lady trainer waa attacked and
severely clawed on the right arm
by a black bear. The attack occurred
so suddenly that the large audience
thought it was a part of the per
formance. After severely chastising
the animal, the trainer withdrew fror
the performing cage and had the in
jured member dressed. The wound
was not serious.
j PANOLA DAISY I
| Pare Milk and Cream ^
| Patrons will ph?ne their 1
| orders to phone No. 243a. jj
W, F. Haney
THE HORSE
SHOER '
Every Job and Every Part of It
GUARANTEED
Cor St. Andrews and Gran
ville Streets.
“The Piano With The Sweet Tone”
SPECIAL SALE
OF STIEFF PIANOS
in the 5 and 10 cent store,
414 Main street, RawPs Toy
Stare, For Fifteen Days Only
beginning Nov. 1st. Every
Stylr manufactured by us in
the different imported woods
will be shown.
Daily recitals on the StieflT
and Auto Player Pianos will
be given.
Several discontinued styles
(bran new) will be offered at
Greatly Reduced Prices.,
The music lovers, of Tar boro
are invited to visit our tempo
rary warerooms.
Very respectfully,
CHAS. M. FyTlEFF
Official Piano, Jamestown Exposition.
“UNLUCKT KORNER”
Headquarters for Canned. Gootis,
Coffees, Teas, etc.
Just received a fresh lot of Hecker
and Quaker products, Ontario
Buckwheat, White Boiled Oats,,
Cream Farina, Cream of Wheat,
Cream Hominy and Grits, Old
Homestead Flapjack Compound,
Graham and Hygienic whole wheat
Flour. We can supply your every
requirement. Satisfaction and pri
ces guaranteed.
ULES-RDFFIH 4 Cft.
(Unlucky Corner.)
The Pure Food Stores
i Phone Double Three,